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This paper introduces a special issue on logic and philosophy of religion in this journal (Sophia). After discussing the role played by logic in the philosophy of religion along with classical developments, we present the basic motivation for this special issue accompanied by an exposition of its content.
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Pragmatic arguments such as Pascal’s wager, for example, also address the issue of the rationality of theism but without trying to reach the conclusion about God’s existence.
We are here purposefully neglecting other fields of the philosophy of religion such as religion and science, religion and ethics, Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion, comparative philosophy of religion, and so on and so forth.
Sobel’s book (2004) could perhaps be one of the few exceptions to that, although he does not present the work of a field, but mostly his own versions of several famous arguments in the philosophy of religion.
While Timothy Williamson (2017), for instance, mentions many paradigmatic instances of formalization in ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language, no word is said about philosophy or religion. This pattern is repeated in the still small but growing literature on formalization in philosophy [see Hansson (2000), Van Benthem (2006), Horsten and Douven (2008), Horsten and Pettigrew (2011), and Williamson (2017), for example].
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Silvestre, R.S., Béziau, JY. Logic and Philosophy of Religion. SOPHIA 56, 139–145 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-017-0613-x
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